she’s cool, but I’m not sure about him.

or we could assume that she refused to do it and hoped they wouldn’t shoot extra footage later. Not sure an actor at that stage in her career could insist on that, nor do I think assuming that amount of power or responsibility is fair.

she wasn’t comfortable doing it, and stood her ground. I’m sure she had a lot of pressure to do it, and she was a young actress without a lot of clout making an unpopular decision so it must have taken some nerve to do what she thought was right for her. So yeah, good for her.

Yes to the Julia/Laura relationship being the best thing in the movie. I know this is going to sound like a hot take but my favourite line in the movie is the one about Carol Channing (and Julia delivers it perfectly).

she had a body-double for the movie poster and the sex scenes. And good for her.

it’s the only thing that makes sense, but I still don’t like it! I kinda gave up when Byrne left, so the Smith run is fun but it doesn’t feel “real” to me.

I read the books when they where released and I never thought that she was possessed - it seemed that Phoenix was the manifestation of her latent power, she renamed herself because she technically had died and because her power-set was so much greater than Marvel Girl, she was virtually a different person. (Even…

“But, in contrast with both Chris Claremont and John Byrne’s original Dark Phoenix storyline and 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand, here Jean’s evil awakening seems to be alien in origin.”

I really REALLY hope they ignore the Fox movies - there’s some horrible missteps and insane continuity in there. Some great casting, though.

dunno - they’ve managed Guardians of the Galaxy really nicely: they have they’re own (relatively) self-contained movies, then join in on the big team-up event. I can see that working for X-Men too.

“The Fox-Disney deal is about to close, and if the new studio doesn’t want a mostly pretty successful X-Men movie franchise on its hands (it doesn’t)“

ooooh, good choice!

Sue Storm. She’d be perfect.

what did you think of the movie? (Haven’t seen it)

still not entirely sure how he dies in Serenity. The ship has stopped, nothing is moving, then that spike comes out of nowhere...

yeah, thats fair. With movies from that era, it’s almost like translating from another language. And yeah, jokes about photographing the native girls aren’t cool now, but they’re still funny.

woof. Salman says hi.

good point but I have a problem with the royalties from all that awesome early music: they all go to that school that he used to teach at, and that school teaches some vile anti-semitic craziness.

speaking of Cat Stevens, here’s a story I’d really like to read: how have we all managed to ignore that the dude has never apologised for supporting - actually encouraging - a state-ordered assassination plot of a writer? C’mon Sean, have a go at that.

World of... eh I got nothing...